The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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- 2026-09-10 14:32 · r/ChatGPT
Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm." - 2026-09-10 14:08 · r/agi
Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm." - 2026-09-10 11:30 · r/ArtificialInteligence
Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm." - 2026-09-10 11:22 · r/OpenAI
Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm." - 2026-09-09 22:11 · Wired AI
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’